Fletcher’s club, Poison, is named after the song “Poison” by Alice Cooper.

Ellyson is usually spelled Ellison, and I’ve only seen it as a last name so I wanted to make it a first name and spell it different.

Keith Evans shares the same first name as my dad.

Some families keep their initials the same and Justin’s family is one of them: Janice Jameson/Justin Jameson.

When I named Cash and Carter, I never intended on giving them nicknames until I wrote the scene in Judge’s. Paige is the only one who calls them Johnny and June after Johnny Cash and June Carter. It actually took me a while to come up with their nicknames until the light bulb finally came on.

Judge’s is named after Fletcher’s maternal grandpa, Judge Winger, who is deceased. Judge Winger is named after one of my favorite movies: Stripes. Bill Murray’s character’s last name is Winger, and Judge Reinhold’s character wears a sweatshirt in the movie that says “Death Before Disco.” I love his sweatshirt!

Maverick is named after Maverick from the movie Top Gun. I intended on giving Elly the nickname Goose since Maverick and her are childhood friends.

Jones Jym is spelled with a “J” only because Jones Gym reminded me of Gold’s Gym, and I didn’t want the similarity floating around in my fictitious world. Silly, I know, but hey, this is my imagination!

Diana O’Bannion is named after Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana”, and Ben Affleck’s character in Dazed and Confused, Fred O’Bannion.

Theodora “Teddy” Winger is named after Dr. Teddy Altman from Grey’s Anatomy.

The last names of the Littles (Vail Grant and Rook Ballard) are named after Olivia Pope’s love interests inScandal, Fitzgerald Grant and Jake Ballard. Rook Ballard’s dad, Harrison Ballard, is named after Harrison Wright also from the TV show.

Bodacious Beth is named after my editor, Beth, and she helped pick out Beth’s roller derby name. She loved Fletcher so much in the first book, I decided to give her a part in the third.

The bartender, Holden, is named after Holden Caulfield from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.

Steph Nuss was born and raised in rural Kansas, where she currently resides with her black Labrador son named Gunner. She grew up with a passion for reading and writing. When she’s not immersed into the land of fiction, she enjoys listening to music that came before her time, watching movies and reruns of her favorite shows, and hanging out with her family and friends. She also has a bachelor’s degree in psychology that she’ll never use…unless she’s profiling her characters of course.

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